About dinosaur CD-ROM's

[Jarno Peschier <jpeschie@cs.ruu.nl>]

At 18:16 2-01-96 -0500, you wrote:

>>                         3.Software:  Is there anything covering Dinosaurs
>in
>>greater depth than Microsoft does?
>
>I don't know of any. To cover dinosaurs in depth requires lots of research (I
>oughtta know), which in turn takes time, which in turn requires $$$. You're
>not likely to find non-trivial dinosaur information on the Internet for free.

I think in this case (talking about Micro$oft) CD-ROM's where mentioned, not
free information from the internet.

>All of my publications cover dinosaurs in much greater depth than anything
>Microsoft has done.

But from the CD-ROM's I know and own (Micro$oft's _Dinosaurs_, Knowledge
Adventure's _3D Dinosaur Adventure_ and Media Design Interactive's
_Dinosaurs! The multimedia encyclopedia_) Micro$oft's CD isn't that bad at
all actually. KA's _3D Dinosaur Adventure_ is a nice CD-ROM with nice
pictures and some movies (the animation of the lying T-Rex skeleton fossil
"getting up" en turning into a living, running T-Rex is *very* nice indeed),
but the info isn't that accurate (even downright incorrect at times). It's
more for looks than for info. The other two are much better, but still they
are sort of at the level of multimedia versions of your standard
dinosaurbooks for childern and interested adults. It's till not that much
more than the normal "trivial info". Ever thought of a _Mesozoic
Meanderings_ version on CD-ROM...? With hyperlinks, animations and the like?
<wide-grin>

          Jarno Peschier, jpeschie@cs.ruu.nl, 2:2802/245.1@Fido
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